$100k Semi-Finalists, Finalists & Winners – 2022

General Technology

1st place: Skywalk
2nd place: MarkIt Social Inc
3rd place: GhostLabel

Cummings Rent Credit: MarkIt Social

The cash prizes for the General Technology track are generously supported by John Cuming, A81, Pamela Cuming and the William R. & Ruth D. Cuming Charitable Foundation.

Healthcare & Life Science

1st place: Therrapu
2nd place: Lumilin Therapeutics
3rd place: Visilant

Cummings Rent Credit: T3M

The cash prizes for the Healthcare and Life Science Track are generously supported by Doug Hirsch, A92 and the Hirsch Family Funderpants.

Social Impact

1st place: Active Heirs
2nd place: NewLineTire
3rd place: The STEAM Team

Cummings Rent Credit: Coplant Seeds

The cash prizes for the Social Impact Track are generously supported by Earle Yaffa, E61 and the Joseph H. Flom Foundation, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

 

WE Global Studio Membership Award:

Active Heirs, Lumilin Therapeutics, NewLine Tire, Nourish, T3M, Therrapu, The STEAM Team, Visilant

Stephen and Geraldine Ricci Interdisciplinary Prize

Lumilin Therapeutics

Friedman Food & Nutrition Innovation Prize

Traveling Tummies

 

General Technology

A Day With

ePayque

GhostLabel

Markit Social Inc.

Skywalk

 

Healthcare & Life Science

Lumilin Therapeutics

T3M

Therrapu

Visilant

Social Impact

Active Heirs

Co-Plant Seeds

NewLine Tire

Nourish

The STEAM Team

General Technology

A Day With

A Day With empowers friends and locals to share their favorite spots – bakeries, speakeasies, hotels – by curating and exchanging authentic travel guides with like-minded explorers.

ePayque

ePayque is a decentralized escrow and smart contract service built on blockchain that helps companies protect themselves from fraudulent or delayed payments.

Ghost Label

For food and beverage businesses, finding a manufacturing partner is difficult, time consuming, and relationship-driven. GhostLabel solves this by providing a B2B marketplace where food and beverage entrepreneurs can get their products made on-demand.

Markit

Markit is the app to find what to do and who to do it with by swiping on events or planning your own. We want to change the way people plan and attend events.

Scope Tennis

Scope Tennis isa fantasy tennis platform that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as player cards. Through our groundbreaking technology and engaging gameplay, users can create their rosters of players with cards minted on a blockchain.

Skywalk

Skywalk is building a sensorized wristband that makes anyone an Augmented Reality native by translating hand motions into digital actions.

Tessera Intelligence

Tessera Intelligence’s technology provides visual enhancement, traffic incident detection, and weather anomaly removal for traffic camera footage.  We enhance the data and automatically detect traffic incidents, including wrong-way drivers, traffic congestion, and bicyclists or pedestrians in tunnels, resulting in the cost-effective deployment of incident response resources.

Theory of Divergence

Our device, the Green Light Assistance Device – or GLAD for short, shines green light into vehicles immediately once the traffic signal shifts from Red to Green, putting an end to delayed starts at traffic intersections.

Healthcare & Lifescience

Lumilin Therapeutics

Lumilin Therapeutics is aiming to improve the lives of 1.6 million Type 1 diabetics in the U.S. by providing a long-lasting, reliable insulin treatment option for patients and providers clinics.

T3M

10% of U.S. women are at risk of needing surgery for urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Our goal is to design and develop a pessary that is not only easier and more comfortable to use, but that also aims to repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP) entirely.

Therrapu

Therrapu has designed and developed a smart bandage using clinically proven nano-thread technology to monitor open wounds and automate medication delivery. By using Therrapu Smart Bandages, medical professionals will be able to minimize the workload on staff and maximize their ability to care for their patients around the clock.

Visilant

Visilant is an end to end ophthalmologic care management system consisting of a low-bandwidth telemedicine platform and a simple, high quality ocular imaging device that enables eye care systems to efficiently and effectively screen and treat high volumes of patients in remote areas.

Social Impact

Active Heirs

Active Heirs empowers Black heirs property owners in the U.S by strengthening family cohesion and by providing families with resources and partnerships to build generational wealth.

Co-Plant Seeds

Co-Plant Seeds provides a new pest control option: companion planting. This practice of growing multiple plants together can drastically reduce pest presence and improve garden health. Co-Plant Seeds reintroduces this technique through seed packets which include high quality seeds and a digestible education of the practice and how to use it.

GoSpacing

GoSpacing is a retail pop-up technology platform that connects yoga teachers with retail spaces who want to host yoga events. The retail spaces benefit by gaining new foot traffic and consistent space activation. Yoga teachers benefit because they get a space to teach class and receive new customers through collaborative marketing.

Nafs

We aim to tackle the challenge of poor foundational learning in India and ensure every child is able to read with fluency and comprehension by the end of Grade 3, making them better prepared to improve their quality of life. The project aims to equip trainers to train and provide continuous support to school teachers who are a part of this intervention.

NewLine Tires

NewLine Tire aims to entirely eliminate tire waste by creating a cyclical market for tires. We utilize devulcanization technology to recycle rubber and repurpose the material to the production of new tires. Our long-term goal is to create passenger tires using recycled rubber, but our initial market entry will be through bicycle tires.

Nourish

Nourish is a browser extension that provides users with simple, comprehensive, and transparent information in real-time as they shop online. Nourish is more than just a simple plugin; it is a personal shopping assistant. Nourish produces a sustainability score based on a company’s environmental and social governance rating.

SWT

Stand With Tigray Inc is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that lies at the intersection of digital advocacy, research, community-building, and innovation. SWT runs global campaigns that get up to 4M+ hashtag exposure on social media to help end the ongoing genocidal war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and fundraises to deliver urgent relief to displaced Tigrayans.

The STEAM Team

We aspire to give every child, no matter their socioeconomic situation, the opportunity to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle and solve complex problems that require innovative solutions. Our kits contain original storybooks, activities that guide families through the engineering design process, and an assortment of materials to kickstart creative solutions to problems presented in our books.